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Re:GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other... by ineedasername on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @08:24PM (#28546294)
I think the key word there was "spontaneous", along with the relative danger and difficulty of dealing with them. An EV fire can take 24 hours to secure. A gasoline car takes about 300 gallons of water.

I'm not saying EV fires are a bigger issue than gasoline cars. I'm saying that you cannot look merely at incident rate to determine the issue.

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Re:GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other... by Robotbeat on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @09:44PM (#28546947)
I would say that's an advantage for EVs. I'd rather have fires that are slow to start and slow to put out than the opposite.
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Re:GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other... by falcolas on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @10:11PM (#28547124)
I’m not sure, it’s 24 hours of constant monitoring and fire suppression from a trained fire crew. Not something that’s scalable.
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Re:GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other... by falcolas on Thursday September 16, 2021 @09:32AM (#28551547)
> Where did you hear 24 hours. Sounds anecdotal.

Tesla.

https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/downloads/2016_Mod...

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Re:GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other... by Dma54rhs on Thursday September 16, 2021 @01:57AM (#28548548)
A lot of smaller fires are put out by fellow passages after the crash. At least here everyone has an obligatory fire extinguisher in their trunks. Real fire crew arrives later and makes sure its all safe.
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